What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...
Australian finches' bill colors come from small genetic variations affecting how they process dietary pigments.
One of the rarest birds in the world, the Wilkins' bunting, is a yellow finch endemic to Nightingale Island in the British ...
Small, mostly insectivorous birds frequently adorned with yellow plumage in varying quantities, warblers as we know them in ...
A Canadian teenager is currently in critical condition after contracting a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, a British ...
Perkins had earlier explained that many of the birds normally in Duke Gardens had already migrated to South and Central America for the winter season. One of the stars of Just Us Birding is the yellow ...
Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers or bills use a group of pigments called carotenoids to produce ...
Most birds with bright yellow or red feathers — think goldfinches and cardinals — use pigments called carotenoids to make ...
What a calming moment, to gaze skyward at a flock of white pelicans. The big white birds sail aloft on heat thermals in loose ...
The chemical mechanism underlying parrots’ vibrant plumage has been elucidated for the first time. The researchers behind the ...
Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers or bills use a group of pigments called carotenoids to produce ...